[RFC] change non-atomic bitops method

[Laura Abbott]

On 2/1/2015 7:55 PM, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> This patch change non-atomic bitops,
> add a if() condition to test it, before set/clear the bit.
> so that we don't need dirty the cache line, if this bit
> have been set or clear. On SMP system, dirty cache line will
> need invalidate other processors cache line, this will have
> some impact on SMP systems.
>

Any actual numbers to give an idea of the impact?

Thanks,
Laura


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